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In the rolling country of central British Columbia, Michael LeBourdais’s Whispering Pines Indian Band is looking forward to a cash injection from a new pipeline proposed by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP. He’ll be seeking compensation for his band if it doesn’t go through. Meanwhile, 400 kilometers away near the pipeline’s terminus in Vancouver, the […]

At age 17, Tuan Le was killed with a semi-automatic firearm while sitting in the driver’s seat of a car parked outside a rave in Vancouver. The young gangster’s death sparked retaliation — a member of a rival gang was later shot but not killed in Burnaby — as a violent turf war among Vietnamese thugs escalated. Le had earlier lived in Calgary’s Applewood Park, where he received mentorship and guidance from Hieu Ngo, a social worker who met the young man when he ran a program helping youth who were at risk of becoming criminals.

It’s astonishing that exports of American coal to Asia will soon increase from near Vancouver, while a proposal to twin an existing oil pipeline from Alberta to the coast is bogged down by meddlesome stall tactics.

CALGARY - Sears Canada has opened a new 240,000-square-foot fulfillment centre in southeast Calgary servicing customers throughout Western Canada. The facility, which officially opened Friday, will create about 200 new jobs.

CALGARY - Sears Canada Inc. announced Monday it has entered into a binding agreement with Concord Pacific Group of Companies to pursue the development of the 12-acre Sears site at the North Hill Shopping Centre in Calgary. Closing under the agreement is conditional upon satisfaction of conditions such as site investigations and obtaining the approval from the City of Calgary for the project, which are expected to take some time, said Sears in a news release.

The formal submission to the City of Calgary for the massive mixed-used development of Currie Barracks is almost complete and developers are holding a public open house next week to present it to the public. The new plan by Canada Lands Company and Embassy Bosa Inc. calls for 5,600 residential units on the site, up from 3,200 originally planned. There will eventually be 11,000 residents in the community which has increased from the 7,000 in the original plans.

Pipeline companies under federal jurisdiction such as Enbridge and Kinder Morgan, which have plans for major oil projects to the west coast of B.C., must create funds to pay for abandoning pipelines by the start of next year.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper could narrow the gulf of mistrust with aboriginal peoples by blocking major resource projects including two proposed pipeline megaprojects to the B.C. coast — unless First Nations consent to construction, the United Nations said Monday.

The B.C. Liberal government proposes creating an industry-funded group to prepare for and clean up oil spills on land similar to a federally-mandated body that exists for marine spills. The government believes a model similar to the Western Canada Marine Response Corp. (WCMRC) could help create a world-leading spill response system, which it says is needed for it to support heavy oil pipelines to the B.C. coast.

Bad winter weather and a notorious Mexican drug cartel are coming around to squeeze Metro Vancouver bars and restaurants in the form of skyrocketing prices for limes, a minor but essential ingredient in a lot of cocktails and food recipes. “It’s crazy, I don’t remember prices this high,” said Gabriel Menendez, chef at Las Margaritas Mexican restaurant on West Fourth Avenue in Vancouver.

Bad winter weather and a notorious Mexican drug cartel are coming around to squeeze Metro Vancouver bars and restaurants in the form of skyrocketing prices for limes, a minor but essential ingredient in a lot of cocktails and food recipes. “It’s crazy, I don’t remember prices this high,” said Gabriel Menendez, chef at Las Margaritas Mexican restaurant on West Fourth Avenue in Vancouver.

The Harper government is downgrading the protection of the North Pacific humpback whale despite objections from a clear majority of groups that were consulted. Critics say the whales could face greater danger if two major oilsands pipeline projects get the go-ahead, since both would result in a sharp increase in movement of large vessels on the West Coast that occasionally collide with, and kill, whales like the humpback.

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